Hastière

Hastière
Hastière
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Namur
District :	Dinant
Coordinates :	50 ° 13 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  E
Area :	56.46 km²
Residents:	6022 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	107 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	5540-5544
Prefix:	082
Mayor:	Claude Bultot ( PS )
Local government address :	Maison Communale Avenue Guy Stinglhamber, 6 5540 Hastière-Lavaux
Website:	www.hastiere.be

Hastière (Walloon: Astire ) is a municipality on the Meuse in the province of Namur in the Walloon part of Belgium .

The municipality consists of the districts Hastière-Lavaux , Agimont, Blaimont, Hastière-par-delà, Heer, Hermeton-sur-Meuse and Waulsort . There are also several hamlets, including Lenne .

history

A religious settlement of Scots was founded in Waulsort around 945 and grew into a Benedictine monastery . After 969, property in Hastière-par-delà was also subordinated to this monastery, where a former nunnery gradually grew into an independent monastery. From 1033 onwards there were disputes and rivalries between Waulsort and Hastière, which both belonged to the sphere of influence of the diocese of Metz . With Wibald von Stablo or later Bishop Bertram von Metz, Waulsort had powerful advocates and proved to be more adept at forging documents; Nevertheless, Hastière ultimately achieved equality: At the beginning of the 13th century, Hastière and Waulsort were each headed by a prior and a common abbot. In 1227 the monasteries were placed under the diocese of Liège . Both abbeys were looted and set on fire in 1793; What remains are the abbey church of Hastière and the abbey courtyard of Waulsort, now a private residence.

The name of the village Waulsort was transferred to a temporarily existing stratigraphic level of the Lower Carboniferous in Belgium (French Waulsortien ) after a geological exploration in the locality and had acquired historical importance within the geological exploration in the region around Dinant in the 19th century. The name was given in 1863 by Edouard Dupont , director of the Musée Royal d'Histoire naturelle , for one of a total of six stages ( d'Etrœungt - later Ecaussines , Avesnelles - later Anseremme , Tournai , Waulsort , Namur and Visé ) of the limestone deposits of Belgian carbon . Dupont was responsible for the first geological mapping in the region of Dinant around 1880, using only three levels ( Tournaisien , Waulsortien , Viséen ) in his map representations . As early as 1888, this name was liquidated on the basis of the work of Charles Louis Joseph de La Vallée Poussin . Henry de Dorlodot dispensed with this stratigraphic term in 1893 when describing the local limestones. The limestone from Waulsort, along with others in this formerly lively stone quarrying region of the Meuse valley above Dinants, was extracted as stone and carried the trade name Brèche de Waulsort .

Web links

Commons : Hastière  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Hastière

• 

  The Saint Hadelinus Abbey Church of Hastière

• 

  Hastière town hall

• 

  The Meuse bridge connects
  Hastière-par-delà with Hastière-Lavaux

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Sackur: The legal dispute between the monasteries Waulsort and Hastière. A contribution to the history of medieval forgeries. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft Vol. 2, pp. 341–389, Freiburg 1889. Digitized
2. ^ Alan Lees: Waulsortian . In: Geologica Belgica 9 / 1-2 (2006), pp. 151–155 English text
3. ↑ Eric Groessens: Dinantian. In: Geologica Belgica 9 / 1-2 (2006), pp. 157-162
4. ↑ Michel Félix Mourlon: Géologie de la Belgique . Vol. 1, Paris, Berlin, Bruxelles 1880, p. 117